Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Truth is a tendency.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.